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SLIVER GOILING CAN FOR GARDING MACHINES. I No. 403,304. Patented May 14, 1889.

llNrTnn STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ELY SUTOLIFFE AND GEORGE E. SUTOLIFFE, OF HALIFAX, COUNTY OF YORK, ENGLAND.

SLlVER-COILING CAN FOR CARDlNG-MACHINES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 403,304, dated May 14:, 1889.

Application filed November 15, 1887. Serial No. 255,236. (No model.) Patented in England November 18, 1886, No. 14,971.

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that We, ELY SUTOLIFFE and GEORGE EDWARD SUToLIFFE, subjects of the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, of the Patent Process Dyeing Company, (Limited,) of Halifax, county of York, England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sliver-Coiling Cans for Caroling-Machines for Making Sliver int-o Packages, (for which we have obtained a patent in Great Britain, No. 14,971, dated November 18, 1886,) of which the following is 'a specification.

Our invention relates to devices employed in operations preparatory to the washing, bleaching, and dyeing of textile materials while in the form of sliver, and has for its object to make up the sliver into a form which will be suitable for the treatment of the sliver with the washing, bleaching, or dyeing liquors, and particularly for the treatment of the sliver by the process and machinery which form the subject-matter of other applications for Letters Patent filed in the United States Patent Office on the same day as this present under Serial Nos. 255,237, 255,238, and 255,239.

Forthe purposes of our invention we coil the sliver around a perforated tube and apply end flanges to the tube, so as to form a bobbin-like package, which can be mounted to revolve, and be treated with washing, dyeing, or other liquors by forcing the same through the mass of sliver by means of the inner perforated tube.

Our invention is illustrated by the accompanying drawings, wherein- Figure 1 represents the completed package of sliver. Fig. 2 represents a cross-section of the same. Fig. 3 illustrates its formation.

In Fig. 3, a is a can, which is the same as an ordinary coiler-can, with the exception that it is not provided with a fast bottom. bis the aforesaid perforated tube, and c is the ordinary coiler of the carding-engine, to be operated in the usual way-=as, for instance, by mechanism similar to that illustrated in the Patent No. 4,277, dated November 18, 1845. The can a rests upon a plate, 01, which is provided with a stump, cl, upon which is placed the perforated tube 6, the said stump keeping the tube in an upright and central position within the can. The can is provided with a spiral spring, a, as is usual, and upon this spring is placed a dished plate, e, which receives the coiled sliver and slides down the perforated tube as the sliver accumulates. The sliver is coiled around the tube in the manner indicated in Fig. 2. Vhen the can is full, it is lifted off the coil, or the coil is lifted out of the can, the flange 6 being held upon the tube 17 by the bead b, and a second dished plate, 6', is placed upon the top of the mass, and is forced down by means of a nut, b, which is screwed upon the end of the perforated tube. The coiled sliver is thus formed into a bobbin-shaped package, resembling the indication in Fig. 1, the plates 6 e forming end flanges, which keep the sliver from escaping from the tube. When in this form the sliver is in a suitable state to be washed, bleached, or dyed, the operations being completely effected without disturbing the coils of the sliver, so that the sliver may be bleached and dyed, or both, and be dried, and, after removal of the end flanges and perforated tube, may be placed in an ordinary slivercan and be taken to the drawing-frames and be subjected to the ordinary treatment to convert it into yarn, exactly as if the sliver were not bleached or dyed, the result being white or colored yarn, as the case may be. The coiled arrangement of the sliver is pe culiarly favorable to the bringing of every portion of the sliver equally under the influence of the liquors or fluids used in the washing, bleaching, or dyeing, and tends in a material degree to the attainment of uniformity and evenness of color or shade.

Any ordinary or suitable form of can may be used in the coiling operation illustrated in Fig. 3, so long as provision is made for holding the perforated tube in the center of the can during the coiling.

What we claim as our invention is-- The combination of the sli\*er-eoiling can names to this specification in the presence of of a carding-engine with a perforated tube two subscribing Witnesses. removably mounted therein, a movable end FT Y SUTCT IFFF plate upon the tube, and a spring support- Tf IFFI} 5 ing the plate, all substantially as described,

whereby the sliver from the engine Will be lVitnesses: coiled upon the perforated tube, as set forth. EDWARD K. DUTTON,

In testimony whereof We have signed our DAVID FULTON. 

